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[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Elections are 100% controlled by the states, there is nothing they can do to force states to comply with this stupid shit. Trump is an utter fucking moron.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 points 4 hours ago

A bunch of states are going to kowtow to him anyway, a judge is going to declare it unconstitutional, Trump's going to throw a hissyfit & bomb Djibouti or some shit as distraction and Congress is going to pass it anyway.

Trump is an utter moron, being supported by utter morons, with utter morons calling rational people "the real morons" for daring to ask "wait, what?"

I'm tired, and I can't weld good enough to make a Killdozer...

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If you're a registered Democrat, you're going to get a late night visit from ICE.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

castle doctrine gonna suck for ice

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Own a modern firearm to shoot fascists foot soldiers, as the founding fathers intended...

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Fuck that we tally ho.

They are not prepared to deal with cannons. Or revolutionary war recreationists

[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

States rights blah blah blah right?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 6 hours ago

we are a christian country!!! oh you can't minister to our detainees.

[–] Worthess@discuss.online 10 points 11 hours ago
[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 37 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Goddamn I want to leave this country, but no one wants immigrants from the US and I don't blame them

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

I definitely get and feel similarly, and I guess this aint a bright spot but unless things change drastically and rapidly so there are very few places on the planet that will be able to serve as a refuge for the pain coming over the next few years. The best we can all hope for is that the US collapses rapidly before the technofeudalists and christofascists can further cement control

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yep, most countries are going to refuse American refugees. We'll just have to stay here, and fight back.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The only country I can easily emigrate to is arguably worse. Which is doubly sucky

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 9 hours ago

Keep your options open, there is still time for it to be preferable to America. I have faith in Trump that he will make things much worse.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 41 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

We don't need fucking Trump's permission to vote.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

If you're in a state with mail-in voting, you need the federal government to carry those ballots, and he just told USPS to interfere, so

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 7 points 8 hours ago

No person needs permission from a leader to vote.

Leaders are elected first in the hearts and minds of the people and then at the ballot box.

A leader can try to take away the ballot box, but they can’t take away people’s will and leaders who forget this will ultimately lose one way or another.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 79 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 36 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

More specifically, child rapist. As well as rapist of women.

[–] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

And based on some of the alleged quotes from the man himself that hes said to his victims about making their whole family dissappear if they ever reported him, possibly murderer as well. If not directly, by giving the order and paying the murderers.

It's going to be decades before we learn the full scope of what hes done, and Ill bet you even then, there will be people that defend him and claim its all fake news, even after hes roasting for eternity in one of the lower circles of hell.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 35 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

As I've said, many a time, once dictatorship's instantiated, he'll not just remove the vote from all non-Republicans, he'll de-naturalize all non-Republicans, then they can be ICE'd..

making it criminal to do ANY trade with "illegals"/woke.

I found out that he & Miller had a 1-MILLION deportations quota on ICE, for their 1st year..

You're too far in nazi territory, when you're doing that kind of shit .. there's no pretending that away, any more than there's any pretending-away Israel's admission that it's annexing territory from Lebanon, once it's got Hamas controlled/down..

Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Millei.. same fundamental-values, they're demonstrating..

& the fools who are "certain" that social-pressure will prevent the tippingpoint from being crossed..

..solving the wrong problem, while helping the enemy that is walking our world into its "secondary-crime-scene", for our world's butchery..

The Great Filter's actual! This century is it..

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[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm really hoping someone clicks on Minecraft.exe before then, to be 💯

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Lmaoo I never thought of the Great Filter as a political thing potentially, I always thought of it as a technological thing like industrialization or disease or something. Interesting

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[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 26 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I wake up every single day thanking the stars I’m not an American. What a fucking disaster this country is. Vote for a rapist, get raped, I guess.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (10 children)

You think the oligarchs that put Trump in office will stop with the US? Better keep an eye on your own politicians

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